Volume 33 · 722
Public Law 58–588
To grant certain lands to the State of Ohio.
Approved February 18, 1905
Statutory text
An Act
To grant certain lands to the State of Ohio.
Whereas the State of Ohio in the years eighteen hundred and twenty-eight to eighteen hundred and forty-four, inclusive, constructed the
Preamble.
Miami and Erie Canal; and
Whereas the State of Ohio, for the purpose of supplying the said canal with water, built and constructed certain artificial lakes or reservoirs known as the Mercer County Reservoir, in Mercer and Auglaize counties, and the Loramie Reservoir, in Auglaize and Shelby counties, the former being completed and flooded with water about the year eighteen hundred and forty-two, and the latter about the year eighteen hundred and forty-four; and
Whereas it has recently come to the knowledge of the authorities of the State of Ohio that the title to the land above described is in the United States and not in the said State of Ohio: Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following described
Ohio.
Lands in Mercer, Auglaize, and Shelby counties, granted to.
lands in township six south, range three east, in Mercer County, Ohio, be, and the same are hereby, granted to the State of Ohio, to wit: The southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section two, township
Description.
six south, range three east, forty acres; the south half of the southwest quarter of section three, township six south, range three east, eighty acres; the east half of the northeast quarter of section eight, township six south, range three east, eighty acres; the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section eight, township six south, range three east, forty acres; the northwest quarter of section eight, township six south, range three east, one hundred and sixty acres; the southwest quarter of section eight, township six south, range three east, one hundred and sixty acres; the northeast quarter of section nine, township six south, range three east, one hundred and sixty acres; the southeast quarter of section nine, township six south, range three east, one hundred and sixty acres; the northwest quarter of section nine, township six south, range three east, one hundred and sixty acres; the east half of the southwest quarter of section nine, township six south, range three east, eighty acres; the southwest quarter of section ten, township six south, range three east, one hundred and sixty acres; the northeast quarter of section eleven, township six south, range three east, one hundred and sixty acres; the southeast quarter of section eleven, township six south, range three east, one hundred and sixty acres; the east half of the southwest quarter of section eleven, township six south, range three east, eighty acres; the northwest quarter of section seventeen, township six south, range three east, one hundred and sixty acres; the east half of the southwest quarter of section seventeen, township six south, range three east, eighty acres; also the whole of section seven, township six south, range four east, in Auglaize County, Ohio, six hundred and ninety-four acres; also the north half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-seven, township seven south, range five east, in Shelby County, Ohio, eighty acres; and containing in all two thousand six hundred and ninety-four acres, more or less.
Approved, February 18, 1905.